GRE Word List
ENIGMA
something hard to understand or explain
The meaning of the word enigma is something hard to understand or explain.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| dainty | something delicious to the taste |
| outgoing | going away : departing |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| suffuse | to spread over or through in the manner of fluid or light : flush |
| leaven | a substance (such as yeast) used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid |